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Associated Press:
Australian leader: Al-Qaida wants Obama — SYDNEY, Australia - Australia's conservative prime minister slammed Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) on Sunday over his opposition to the Iraq war, a day after the first-term U.S. senator announced his intention to run for the White House in 2008.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Even Our Friends Should Butt Out Of Our Politics — Am I the only conservative with misgivings regarding John Howard's proclamation about Barack Obama? Howard, the Prime Minister of Australia and a great friend to the United States, wants to wage an aggressive war against al-Qaeda and radical Islamist terrorists.
Sydney Morning Herald:
Obama blasts Howard on Iraq — US presidential hopeful Barack Obama has blasted as "empty rhetoric" Australian Prime Minister John Howard's attack on Obama's plan to bring US troops home from Iraq. — The 45-year-old senator waded into a major foreign policy row just one day after formally announcing …
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Michael van der Galien / The Moderate Voice:
Australia's PM John Howard Slams Obama
Australia's PM John Howard Slams Obama
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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Iran Sending Explosives to Extremist Groups in Iraq, Officials Say — Iranian security forces, taking orders from the "highest levels" of the Iranian government, are funneling sophisticated explosives to extremist groups in Iraq, and the weapons have grown increasingly deadly for U.S.-led troops …
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Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
U.S. military: Iran arming Iraq militias
U.S. military: Iran arming Iraq militias
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Cernig / NewsHog:
Breaking: US "Reveals Iran Evidence"
Breaking: US "Reveals Iran Evidence"
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Andrew Sullivan / Times of London:
An experiment that hints we are wrong on climate change — Nigel Calder, former editor of New Scientist, says the orthodoxy must be challenged — When politicians and journalists declare that the science of global warming is settled, they show a regrettable ignorance about how science works.
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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Don't ruin economy over tiny temp rise — Our Thought For The Week comes from the Boston Globe's Ellen Goodman: "I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers …
New York Times:
At Libby's Defense Table, a Tough but Deft Lawyer — One of Theodore V. Wells Jr.'s past clients slipped quietly into the courtroom recently to watch a day in the perjury trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. Mike Espy, agriculture secretary under President Bill Clinton, sat watching Mr. Wells …
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Newsweek:
Rumors of War — Jalal Sharafi was carrying a videogame, a gift for his daughter, when he found himself surrounded. On that chilly Sunday morning, the second secretary at the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad had driven himself to the commercial district of Arasat Hindi to checkout the site for a new Iranian bank.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
McCain Backing Away From Campaign Finance Reform? — Conservatives have mistrusted John McCain for five years, ever since he teamed with Russ Feingold to pass the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act. The pair intended on ending checkbook politics by restricting the rights of groups to advertise …
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John Solomon / Washington Post:
McCain Taps Cash He Sought To Limit
McCain Taps Cash He Sought To Limit
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Nico / Think Progress:
Kristol: Obama Is 'The Opposite Of Lincoln,' Would Have Been Pro-Slavery — Yesterday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) announced his candidacy for president in Springfield, IL, where Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "House Divided" address. In his speech, Obama reiterated his call to redeploy U.S. forces out of Iraq by March 2008.
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Deborah Howell / Washington Post:
A Blog's Blast Damage — The fact that The Post and washingtonpost.com are interlocking yet separate is lost on most readers, who do not care that the two are miles apart physically and under different management. — A great example is the recent firestorm over a column that never appeared in The Post …
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William E. Odom / Washington Post:
Victory Is Not an Option — The Mission Can't Be Accomplished — It's Time for a New Strategy — The new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq starkly delineates the gulf that separates President Bush's illusions from the realities of the war. Victory, as the president sees it …
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Jonathan Darman / Newsweek:
Is it an accident that Genuine John Edwards has chosen this moment to emerge? — They want you to be so cautious it makes it hard to say anything' — In the fall of 2005, John Edwards sat down with a pad and pen and scrawled out three simple words: "I was wrong."
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
U.S. Keeps Pressure on Iran But Decreases Saber Rattling — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates insisted again Friday that, despite persistent reports to the contrary circulating in Washington and around the world, the United States is not planning military action against Iran.
David Blair / Telegraph:
Pentagon blames Iran for 170 US deaths — America today blamed Iran for the deaths of 170 US troops inside Iraq, accusing Teheran of supplying insurgents with increasingly sophisticated bombs. — Senior defence officials in Baghdad said that Iranian-supplied "explosively formed projectiles" …
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Chad Graham / Arizona Republic:
New wage boost puts squeeze on teenage workers across Arizona — Employers are cutting back hours, laying off young staffers — Oh, for the days when Arizona's high school students could roll pizza dough, sweep up sticky floors in theaters or scoop ice cream without worrying about ballot initiatives affecting their earning power.
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Fox News:
TRANSCRIPT: FORMER DEFENSE UNDERSECRETARY DOUGLAS FEITH ON 'FNS' — WASHINGTON — The following is a partial transcript of the Feb. 11, 2007, edition of "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace": — "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" HOST CHRIS WALLACE: Well, joining us now for an exclusive interview …
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